Robinson Cheer Regionals!

As Robinson’s Varsity cheer team wins Districts, they now are preparing for Regionals! Regionals is a big cheer event where many teams compete against each other in hopes to be 1 of the top 2 teams and move forwards to States. Regionals is on Saturday, October 27 starting at 11am. Since Districts, the cheerleaders have had 2 weeks to prepare for competing in Regionals. How are they preparing? Do they feel ready to compete?

Name: Daniela Rajwan

Grade: 9

• What position are you?

          I’m a flyer and a base.

• How long have you been cheering?

          I have been cheering for about 5 years now.

• What’s your favorite part about cheer?

          My favorite part about cheer is tumbling because I like to learn new flips and                                learn new skills

• Do you feel prepared for Regionals?

          I feel very prepared and excited for Regionals and I can’t wait to compete!

• How have you guys been preparing?

          We have been preparing for Regionals by perfecting the little things in our routine and running out routine over and over again. We’ve also been doing our stunts to perfect them and changing our routine to improve it.

• Do you think you’ll win Regionals?

I think our team has a good chance at winning because we’ve been working hard to perfect everything and if we can continue to hit our stunts then I have confidence that we can win.

Name: Lillie Quiachon

Grade: 10

• What position are you?

          I’m a flyer so I fly in the elite stunts and the cheer stunts.

• How long have you been cheering?

          I have been cheering since last year, around the summer of 2017.

• What’s your favorite part about cheer?

          I love the feeling of knowing a routine where everyone hit their stunts. I also love practicing and getting to learn a wide variety of skills.

• Do you feel prepared for regionals?

          We practice everyday except for Sundays, and we’ve even better getting judges to come in and help us perfect our routine.

• How have you guys been preparing?

          I feel prepared for Regionals but I’m also kind of nervous because 3 stunts fell at districts so I’m hoping that doesn’t happen again. I want us to hopefully be completely solid before we go.

• Do you think you’ll win regionals?

          I hope that we win Regionals, I’m confident that we will be able to move on in the competition to the top 6 out of 12. Then from there, I hope we will be the top 2 out of those 6 and move on to States.

Name: Mia Waters

Grade: 10

• What position are you?

I’m a flyer.

• How long have you been cheering?

My first year doing cheer was last year as a Freshman, but before that I was doing gymnastics and that’s what i’ve been doing my whole life.

• What’s your favorite part about cheer?

Being on the team and being able to be with my friends who I can always rely on and also getting to compete with them.

• Do you feel prepared for regionals?

          I think we’re pretty prepared for regionals, we’ve been perfecting our routine and we’re adding more things, like an extra jump. We did well at districts, so I’m hoping we do well again.

• How have you guys been preparing?

We have practice everyday after school and on Thursdays we have practice from 6am-7:30am, so that’s the main way we’ve been preparing.

• Do you think you’ll win regionals?

I don’t know if we’ll win regionals but I hope we get 1st or 2nd place so we can go to states, that’s the goal!

Name: Phoebe Patterson

Grade: 9

• What position are you?

          I’m a flyer.

• How long have you been cheering?

I just started cheering this year, but before that I did gymnastics which helped a lot for cheer.

• Do you feel prepared for regionals?

          I think we’re prepared for Regionals, we’ve been hitting most of our stunts and if we can continue, then we can win. We won district champs, so I think we know we can do it if we work hard enough.

• How have you guys been preparing?

          We’ve been preparing a lot during practices and having judges come and judge us and critique anything that needs changes.

• Do you think you’ll win regionals?

I think we can win Regionals if we can continue to hit out stunts and practice a lot.